[Guardian] BiS Pre-Raid Lists

Since there are druids out there who are unsure on how to gear up this coming week, I have created several lists for people to shoot for when preparing for Mogu'shan Vaults. I've made a list for those who don't want to touch PvP and only use those items that either drop from dungeons, quests, or crafting; one that includes pvp; and one for BiS, full Valor gear set. The full Valor list is quite extensive and will take several weeks to get (considering you can only earn 1k Valor a week).

Keep in mind that I also factored in Brewfest and Darkmoon Fair into these calcs since they will be available at the start of the raiding season.

The only reason I didn't include Delicate Necklace of the Golden Lotus into the first two lists is due to the time commitment needed to get to Exalted with the Golden Lotus in order to accept the quest that rewards the neck.

In case people are wondering about Iron Protector Talisman being on all three lists is because the proc rate is absolutely phenomenal. 15% chance on hit for 3,386 dodge rating for 15 seconds with a 45 second ICD.

is stam really that better compared to, say, mastery? Kinda sad to see stam back as our main stat >.<

A few reasons. The main is due to the fact that we lost our Savage Defense bubble; which provided a huge amount of mitigation. That mitigation was being calculated into our effective health. Because of the lost of that bubble, we are back to stacking stam and Mastery/armor to our Effective health of the content. At least for T14 Normal we need around 500k health and ~65% on the character sheet; ~60% against a level 93 target; to reach that EH point. The QUICKEST stat to reach that point is Stamina. However, once we reach that point, we can move some of those stam points into Mastery and dodge. Mastery is our best long-term stat to stay at the effective health point while stamina is our best short-term.

---------- Post added 2012-09-23 at 06:24 PM ----------

Originally Posted by silentkillin

oh well now I feel like a fool :-)

I know the quickest rep to get to revered will be the Shado-Pan rep. Just doing the leveling quests in Kun-Lai and Steppes will get you to at least Honored, possibly Revered.

The August Celestials with the Golden Lotus not far behind will take the longest due to the fact that most of the rep requires you to be level 90 and there is little to no leveling quests that rewards rep with either of these two. The Golden Lotus I do believe has 3-4 level 87 quests you can do while leveling but nothing else until 90.

With the hit/exp > crit bit. It really depends on whether you want more Rage generation or not. the lists I posted are for pure mitigation only. In Rawr I have a setting so that you can increase your Threat value. By increasing this number you also increase to 100% you also increase your chance to generate more rage which in turn will increase the value of hit/exp, crit and haste.

You know I probably should add a tooltip for that option just in case people are confused by it. I should have that posted tonight.

Edit:

Also Kavan has told me he plans on posting version 5.0.0 or Rawr tomorrow night before midnight.

So, i ahve been progression raiding for a long time. (since BC on my hunter) but mostly it has all been on my holy pally. I never used RAWR for it as it was pretty simple really for holy pallies. Where it was you wanted a lot of crit for mana regen it turned into haste. Stack it all and win.

But now my group has need of a tank and I am going guardian (i finsihed this tier out with him and had a blast). Is RAWR really that big of a help in setting up your character? If so, could you point me in the way of a good FAQ for it?

Armor has DR, but the benefits are linear. As an exemple, going from 50% DR to 51% is worse than going from 98% to 99%, the second scenario doubles your survival while the previous one increases it only slightly.

I believe avoidance might be linear as well.. cant say for sure however, but with savage defense, the strenght of dodge increases dramatically the more you get.